* Re: Hardware support for devices using the driver file,dm9000.c
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@ 2015-05-29 14:52 ` Andrew Ruder
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From: Andrew Ruder @ 2015-05-29 14:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nick, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: tklauser@distanz.ch, julia.lawall@lip6.fr, paul.burton@imgtec.com,
Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com, himangi774@gmail.com,
dan.carpenter@oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
On 05/29/2015 09:23 AM, nick wrote:
> Greetings All,
> I am wondering if anything is still using the Davicom DM9000 driver recently as the code base states its
> from the late 1990s. Furthermore I see no reason to keep it around if something recent i.e. last 10 years
> is using it that is based off the mainline/stable releases as otherwise it's legacy code and should be
> removed in my option.
> Cheers,
> Nick
Nick,
Yes, it is still used.
Andy
P.S.
Some context for those yelling WTF at their computer right now:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/4/206
Pretty sure he's banned from the mailing lists though.
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